AntronX

With 70% effective marginal tax rate at >60k all those cool things become 3x more expensive in time invested because you only keep 30% of your labor input above that amount. IDK about you buy I would not work for that.

Then why work hard if everything you need is paid by someone else? This may explain low salaries in EU and 30 day PTO. Then if people don't make a lot they have to tax them more to pay for all this free stuff which further disincentivizes working harder.

Europeans make around half of what similar roles make in US and pay up to 70% of their income in taxes (50% income + 20% vat). What are they spending all that money on?

I don't remember worrying about data usage. I got into wardriving and was torrenting from neighbors unsecured linksys ssids. Will never forget that warm feeling of hearing netstumbler pings picking up new APs.

You OK?

I still use torrents to find lossless CD rips of various 80s - 90s music. Makes it easy to get multiple different releases and pick best sounding version. Buying used CDs on ebay to rip would be a chore.

It took about 30 minutes to get 3.5 MB mp3 song over dial up. I would let downloads run overnight and could get a dozen songs by next day. I would do my bulk mp3 downloading in the morning before class at schools library to immediately transfer over USB to my 4 GB Archos Jukebox hard drive mp3 player. That was around 2001 - 2003 either before schools blocked p2p or I must have been using public file downloading sites.

When I was in Seattle I noticed youtube, facebook and maybe other apps load and run faster. I was on fiber internet at an apartment. Back in Miami I was on Comcast cable but recently got fiber here as well and there was not noticeable improvement. I guess next time I'm in Seattle I will do screen recording to compare.

DC in Miami, explains why Telegram app is snappy fast for me. I notice similar speed improvement with Meta and other big tech apps when I'm on the west coast. I guess latency matters when your app is making tons of requests.

> arm64 is an IP-locked ISA, namely it is not worth assembly writting

Why is that a problem? Google search returns 3K page arm64 ISA manual. What else do you need to write asm?

It's not just X, it's Y.

I wish tech companies would stop shoving AI in my face everywhere. F off google i don't want to "ask ai" in maps. Get that ugly ai button off from messenger, meta. At least microslop winblows lets me remove crapilot buttons from apps.

That was on free Xfnity Wifi. They got called out for it.

What first world ISP does this?

I wonder if you could roll your own VPN tunnel that directly connects to your home internet IP and passes custom encrypted payload that your IT department cannot decode. Would they just drop the connection if they can't inspect what your are sending?

> Update 2023-11-05 Yeah, I've got an LE cert now. And I don't want to talk about it.

Please do tell. I'm curious what forced him to join The Borg.

I guess it's legal because Spotify is a private subscription service and does not use public airwaves like radio so Payola rules do not apply.

Perfect! It has option to download original yt audio format without transcoding to mp3.

My CPU was at 25%. Added uBlock custom filter: github.com##div.signup-stars and CPU was back to 1%. Background stars animation is the culprit.